Siddarth Ponnala

Siddarth Ponnala, Ph.D., serves as the Manager of UX Research and Design at Saama since October 2022, leading a team that collaborates with multiple product teams to enhance UX through various research methodologies. As a Principal Consultant at Infinite Intuition since July 2019, Siddarth provides user research, product design, and strategy solutions across diverse sectors including healthcare and logistics. Previous roles include Design Researcher Lead at Volkswagen Automotive Cloud and Senior UX Researcher at divvyDOSE, where Siddarth focused on improving digital experiences. Siddarth's early career involved significant contributions to human factors engineering at institutions such as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Mayo Clinic. Academically, Siddarth holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, supplemented by a Master’s from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor's from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.